NBWTA Report 1904-044
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84 Blyth, week, Cheetham Hill, 85 Middlesbro’, but do not hold a summer and Hale End meet every Vognebeloth finds summer the best time for meetings, and provides the music at the B.W.T.A. gatherings. Norwood reports a successful sale of work and concerts, and have adopted a little girl at the Birds’ Nest, for whom they are making clothes. East Dulwich are also helping to provide garments for another child. Gloucester plans sweet and flower meetings, part of the proceeds being for Duxhurst, and the flowers are for May Day festivities in London. Buckhurst Hill have had a lantern lecture, and are now working for a sale addition to be held this to joining with Temperance month the on South Alphabet at the L.T.L. behalf of the Woodford Farm Legion in Colony, giving in the annual meeting. Liscard Company have just given a most interesting public meeting and concert, at which the hall was crowded, and supplied a number of toys for the poor children’s treat at Christmas. The Children’s Home Legion have very enthusiastic gatherings, and the National Superintendent, during a recent visit there, was much impressed by the importance of the work that is carried on under its auspices. Some of the members are giving the Model Meeting at the Legion Demonstration. : The members of the Wanstead Loyal Legion invited the seventy- seven children from the Forest House Workhouse to an entertainment and tea in Bushwood Meeting House. Mrs. Harrison, of South Wood- ford, kindly provided tea, and, as it was a beautiful day, the little folks thoroughly enjoyed their treat. Sunderland arranged a lantern lecture. Woking had a public meeting, and had several competitions. The Amethyst Company report a lending library. Though continued ill-health has made it impossible for the National Superintendent to address any meetings on behalf of this department, she was able to attend a leaders’ meeting at head- quarters in March and write a report to the National Executive. She has sent a monthly contribution for children to the White Ribbon, and earnestly trusts that the coming year may be one of increased usefulness. It is a well-known difficult, even under truth that the work the best LITERATURE session. conditions, of reformation is uphill and and there are still many branches where the importance of seed sowing has not yet been fully appreciated, and, as the old gardener says, there are ‘‘ many pleasant flowers that our ayre will permit to be nourished.’ Let the workers, before it is too late, look to their part of the garden of England, and . sow in faith, believing that the young lives they may nurture will indeed yield an abundant harvest, and thus do their part in making earth the seed-plot of heaven. Epiru L. Witson, Hon. National Superintendent. DEPARTMENT. This Department has been continued under the management of a Committee consisting of Miss A. M. Lile, Mrs. Ward Poole, Mrs. Paddon and Miss Swankie Cameron, with the officers ex-officio. One special and eight ordinary meetings have been held; the attendances have been:—Miss A. M. Lile, 5; Mrs. Ward Poole, o ; Mrs. Paddon, 5; Miss Swankie Cameron, 4. £x-officio members— Miss Agnes Price Hughes, 1; Mrs. Countess of Carlisle, 9; Miss Gorham, 7; Mrs. Osborn, 6; Mrs. Crosfield, 5; Slack, 4; Mrs. Clarkson, o. The Department has had a year of very heavy work, though the ‘The important business returns vary very little from those of last year. campaigns which have occupied the attention of the Association have brought orders from the Branches for over 8,000,000 pages, which were published at cost price, the Department supplying the necessary clerical work and packing materials. Owing to these campaigns, which have very largely occupied the attention of the Branches, less new literature on general Temperance The Presidents Annual Address, a subjects has been published. pamphlet ‘‘ Why Alcohol Harms,” a leaflet on the need for Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools, a new penny badge, which is sold almost at cost price, and judging from the sales appears to meet a real need, together with new editions of the “White Ribbon Hymnal,” -the “ Penny Hymn-Book,” and ‘Ready Remedies in Place of Brandy,” have been published. The B.W.T.A. Calendar was not brought out for 1904 owing to its having met with insufficient sale to cover expenses during recent years. ? Miss Willard’s autobiography, ‘‘My Happy Half Century,” for which your Committee reported last year that they had become respon- sible for 500 copies in order to obtain a new edition, has not met with the ready sale which was hoped for it, and in consequence there is a large stock on hand. Pressure of work having delayed the preparation of a new Cata- logue, a supplementary sheet of recent Temperance publications was issued, and has been circulated in conjunction with the existing catalogue. During the year, in addition to the new penny badge, the price of 29,311 badges, 19,626 pledge and mem- all badges has been reduced. bership cards, and 3,214 pledge books have been sold. While the sales stand at almost the same figures as last year, the profits are very much less. This is accounted for to the Auditor’s satis- faction by the reduction in the price of badges and of a loss of some 435 on pledge cards, pledge books, etc., which owing to Lady Henry Somerset’s resignation of the Presidency became useless. The Auditor in her report states that “The total stock sold is a good bit in advance of that in the previous year, for had the sales been charged at the old prices the total sales for this year would have stood |